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Has anyone used the WRT43GX? Does it work as advertised? I bought the Linksys WRV54G Wireless-G VPN Router and thought it was a piece of crap.I am not sure about buying another high priced wireless router from linksys.

Buy a Linksys WRT54G WiFi router for $60 and then $20 bucks for the open source Sveasoft Alchemy firmware. It will turn your WRT54G into a monster.

Some of the features added with the open source firmware includes:

Hotspot portal
PPTP VPN server
Two-way bandwidth management (includes P2P, VoIP, IM)
SSH client and server
Telnet
Startup, firewall, and shutdown scripts
WDS repeater mode
Client mode (support multiple attached devices)
Adhoc mode
OSPF routing
RIP2 routing
Power boost to 251 mw
Antenna select
Static DHCP address assignments
Additional DDNS support
Wireless MAC address clone
VLAN support (hardware only)
WPA over WDS
WPA/TKIP with AES
Client mode WPA
Client isolation mode
P2P blocking/bandwidth management (Gnutella, Kazaa, etc)
Port triggering
Wake-On-Lan
Remote syslog
Remote Ntop statistics
SNMP
Safe backup and restore
Reset on firmware upgrade
Status includes system uptime and load average
Status for wireless clients and WDS
Site survey
Remote NTP server support
Supports new WRT54G V2.2 and WRT54GS V1.1 models


There are also other open source firmware projects for the same Linksys router called WiFiBox and HyperWRT but I have never tested those.

WiFiBox:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/

HyperWRT:

http://www.hyperdrive.be/hyperwrt/

You can try Openwrt on the WRT54s.
It is an open source project (not as Sveasoft) and it can do all you need, or just what you need !